Thursday, February 01, 2024

NaHaiWriMo album

 It’s National Haiku Writing Month (and Black History Month too) so this page is going to be the one I use to collect all the haiku I write this month. As usual I will try to write at least 30. 


this low buzz

after a quick smoke

hornet’s nest


wind chimes

the rising melody

of light rain


w w w

in the left of the field

goose tracks


filled mostly

with moonshine

ghost apples


Spring balloon

a line from Sylvia Plath

trails behind


luz di kel lua

riba ponta di anda

tubaron azul


moonlight

at the point of a wave

a blue shark


dripping faucet not just water slipping down the drain


[This is probably the blackest haiku I will ever write—]


May breeze  Frankie & Comet & Lysol & Maze



spreading frost

an old man combs his beard

in a store window


bay waters

a black woman brushes

a boy’s hair


stiff breeze

the skateboarder’s back

gets gnarly


old newspaper

moves down the street

kick kick glide


Black History Month

we admire 28 ways

to eat peanuts 


February breeze

outside the break room

night time stars


February first

the librarian’s red lips

black liner green eyes


train ride

the grin of the small boy

inside


moving 

from rider to rider

the conductor’s smile


mid-February

only the pine barrens

pine


deep winter

a white blanket

is everything


swept up

in a woman’s hairstyle

gold leaf


across the room

filling a woman’s glass

bartender’s smile 


cloud moving

across the church roof

a black cat


navel orange

the sea beneath

peeling


geese honking

at the intersection

of sky and pond


still water

where the treetops

meet the sky


National Zoo

under the afternoon sun

a lion’s mane






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